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Download full textOgbu, John U. – 1981
Social scientists have adopted two different views on the influence of the community and home on academic achievement of lower-class and minority students. The first is the deficit perspective, or the failure-of-socialization hypothesis. The second is the difference perspective, or the cultural-discontinuity/failure-of-communication hypothesis.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Caste
